The Presidency: Of Peace and Politics

For better or worse, the speech would
be his ownall his own. As he worked past midnight in his hideaway
study in the Executive Office Building and in isolation at Camp David,
there were no proposed drafts, no stacks of memos, no turgid position
papers to help. "He's writing it himselfwith his pen on his little
yellow pad," confided Communications Director Herb Klein. Although he
may not have wanted it that way, President Nixon's speech on Viet Nam
this week had shaped up as one of the most important of his
Administration...